trump: Instead, the President will lead an event on religious freedom, an issue that plays to evangelicals who make up part of the political base he is relying on to win re-election, according to CNN. Trump and his Japanese counterpart are also expected to announce an agreement on trade. When world leaders gather Monday to focus on the UN Climate Action Summit, the US is sending a lower level State Department official who will not speak, leaving the US silent on an issue that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called a direct existential threat to the world. The President leveraged voters' economic anxiety during his campaign, regularly rails against unfair trade arrangements and touts the benefits of bilateral pacts that give the US the upper hand. An attack on everyone' Read More And while Trump and his administration have been openly skeptical of the value of international organizations and the UN in particular, this year they will be focused on lobbying the world community to join their push to bring Iran under control -- an effort that could be an uphill battle, some analysts say. The furor over reports Trump pressed Ukraine's president to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's son during a call earlier this summer is also likely to overshadow the President's week, especially on Wednesday when he is due to meet his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.
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